Stay Awake
Various Composers Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Stay Awake' by these artists:

&&& Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
1. Ellie Goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
451 I been broke (yeah), I been rich I always chose the…
A.K.B. Stay Awake Nigga it aint over They wanna book me for…
Ace Volar Volar Uh If you got a wave don't cop mine She say you…
Aleksander Walmann Baby this dont feel right Maybe I should stay a…
All Time Low Caught in a cold sweat stuck splitting hairs I'm drinking to…
Annie Nightingale If we don't If we don't If we don't If we don't If we…
Anton Sword I knew when I first saw you that I was…

Asobi Seksu Please make them stop They're covering their eyes With chi…
Bastille Stop the world, I want to get off Lucid dreams, I…
Billie the Vision & the Dancers So watch my hips, the steps that I take and…
Brian Wilson Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Clean Cut Kid Stay Awake Your’e always blaming yourself for everything Wh…
Collin Raye Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down, upon your…
Dean Lewis Tracing our fingers from right to left We're too drunk to…
Dennis Sheperd Tonight was gonna be the last strong In night to calling…
Disclosure / London Grammar I am the blank page before you I am the fine…
Dishwalla Staring at the wall because you know it understands And boy…
Disney Mary Poppins: Stay awake, don't rest your head Don'…
Disney (Mary Poppins) Stay awake don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Disney- Mary Poppins Stay awake Don´t rest your head Don´t lie down upon your bed…
Don Diablo Ooh, stay the night Save my life Help me stay awake Ooh, see…
Drew Miller There's a sea within me A thrashing formlessness Threatens t…
Ellie Goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
Ellie Goulding & Madeon Take my fate in your hands We've got a lot that…
Ellie Goulding (Deluxe Edition) Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
Ellie Goulding featuring Madeon Take my fate in your hands We've got a lot that…
Ellie Goulding x Madeon Take my faith in your hands, we've got a lot…
Ellie goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
Empty Isles Wake up I need you to wake up When the going's…
Epic Hero She's sitting alone Watching the clock All she hears is brea…
Example If we don't If we don't If we don't If we don't If we…
Example [www.Mp3Boxx.com] If we don't If we don't If we don't If we don't If we…
Faithful Darkness What now, where am I now I'm blind I can't see the…
Fixation Eyes are burning bright by fires that you have helped ignite…
Ghöstwolf Pray for your soul Before you fall asleep Scream for…
Giving In Just stay, stay awake for me cus I'm almost home,…
Harry Connick Jr. Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Hayley Westenra Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Hurt Everybody Are you home? Where you stay? What you on? I'm on my way! St…
Iration I'm sorry that I hurt you with those things I…
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards So long Tramadol we knew you well Slow crawl above it…
Josh Kelley I could fall in love with you But it's not my…
Julia Nunes It's like I don't have the patience Or the willpower to…
Juliana Hatfield I don’t want to go to school today I don’t wanna…
Julie Andrews Stay awake don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Karen Taylor-Good Stay awake don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Keemosabe Used to feel like giving up Used to shiver and fool…
Kisschasy Well I know that we are dead, And my only regret Is…
KITCHEN - All Time Low Caught in a cold sweat Stuck splitting hairs and drinking to…
Lean Chihiro Phone ringing but hell no I'm not pickin' up no more You…
Lil Uzi Vert SoFaygo (Ayy, Woods, light that shit up) Shawty fuck with my demean…
London Grammar I am the blank page before you I am the fine…
Lone Coast Just another day and all i feel about is you i throw…
Lords of Acid Thursday night - the feeling's right Here comes the weekend,…
Love and Logic And I wake up It won't do me no favors Just take…
Lydia Live it up, live it up Or just come back home Yeah,…
Madeon feat Ellie Goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
Marlene Oh it's like I've been asleep forever Waiting for the clouds…
Mary Poppins Film Cast Feat. Julie Andrews Stay awake don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
Mary Poppins [Soundtrack] Mary Poppins: Stay awake, don't rest your head Don'…
Matilda Cole Got pictures on your wall of dead men Telling me about…
Monarch I'm lying here, my face against the ground I face your…
My Chemical Romance Stay The lights already low enough to play Can you catch m…
Nightcore: Madeon feat. Ellie Goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…
P.L. Travers so little people choose to stay awake so many cant afford…
Project-X Lost in the night Loved her faster I feel alive Does it matt…
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Mary Poppins: Stay awake, don't rest your head Don'…
Ronnie Laws Another day, another place Another night and you’re not here…
RYTERBAND Iu0027m fine Hot wired But somethingu0027s broken Takes a li…
Sacred Skin These long days Til the end of time Perception Keeps them…
Skott STAY AWAKE Stay Stay awake Open your eyes and dream with me…
SoFaygo (Ayy, Woods, light that shit up) Shawty fuck with my demean…
The Echoing Green "Doesn't look like they'll be closing down tonight..." On y…
The Innocence Mission stay awake, don't rest your head don't lie down upon your…
The Mayries Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your…
The Sheer When it's late at night Feeling not quite right Don't let it…
these streets who do you think you are? are you the picture you…
TV Rock and Example featuring Rudy If we don't If we don't If we don't If we don't If we…
Unjust (Verse 1) Lonely one, Where are you Feel this space of…
Wes Carr Tick tock the clock is like an atom bomb Five minutes…
Wrong Life You fell to pieces the second They left your room Then you…
Элли Голдинг & Madeon Take my fate in your hands We've got a lot that…
Ellie Goulding Take my faith in your hands, we have a lot…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@painterly_porcine262

1y↑1

Weirdly I had the SAME reaction as @Eric C and @__ posts ~ (went away for a day - thought / "Thunk" about it for a bit ) THEN watched the video a second time and NOW I kinda lean in on @Nahre Sol 's beginnings of a "Thesis" a focal theory*.

Honestly what these "Greats" (as such) had was this core need to take (for their respective times) pretty gigantic leaps and (most importantly) near massive RISKS and yet at the same time make the listener feel included and important; from personal human resonances to the near EPIC - from personal internal reflections and partcular facets of the human psyche seemingly scaled up to monumental truths. In this respect the listener is made to feel important and included in spite of works wrought by some of the most awkward, difficult, pig headed and cantankerous people that any contemporary would ever be likely to meet. "They" - literally could not help themselves but BE who they are in spite of the "Norms" of their own respective times - hence the challenging and groundbreaking nature of their most significant works. Beethoven's 9th being a great example of a very MUCH beloved total trainwreck.

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* However I suspect the need for the illusion of immediacy probably comes from the fact they ALL had excellent teachers, C.P.E Bach, "Papa" Hyden, etc. AND hand in hand having the need to also TEACH for a living really forces one to figure out what IS important to communicate, given that time is always limited. Teaching / coaching forces one to constantly seek out ever more impactful and efficient ways to get the point across ~ unlike this post.

** Interesting parallel is Miles Davis' take Autumn Leaves with an introduction that pulls out a very particular sensibility and set of human facets in a very brave new way - not unlike the cited piece of Mozart (as above Nahre's Vid ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tguu4m38U78&t=0s

^^^ If you don't know it definitely check it out :-)

All comments from YouTube:

@sebastianchand8392

1y↑417

i had a very good composing teacher who said that making great sounding music wasnt as hard as one may think. creating great sounding passages as those illustrated here is not as challenging as finding the right place for them. so its not about how the music sounds but rather about the narrative, the form of the whole. what all great composers had in common was their ability to put the structure of the piece to the service of the music

@NahreSol

1y↑45

💯

@jakubziak7441

1y↑19

YEEEEES!!! Absolutely agree! Thats why I always disagree when my fellow composer-friends or anyone tells me thats its only about harmony.
The form, orchestration, develompent, motiffic work... these are the true tools for writing great music ! Not only the harmony, altough its not less important.

@monscarmeli

1y↑2

This is a crucial point. Obviously you must know counterpoint, harmony, invention, and all that; but without being able to actually "compose" it all into an effective whole, you get little more than an interesting comp exercise. Yet, once you can grasp the long-range form and the "story" to be "told", then you will "form" something that will "speak" to people.

@DeflatingAtheism

1y↑4

The same goes for performance as well. Sometimes a passage has to be played less-beautifully, so that the piece as a whole can be more beautiful in its total effect.

@Don-James

Profoundly true.

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@EricGross

1y↑411

Thanks to a much older brother, I have listened to this music for 65 years and Nahre Sol is an absolute genus. Her videos are utterly revelatory. I am so grateful to your presence on youtube.

@NahreSol

1y↑34

Thank you so much…! ☺️🙏🏻

@laurenth7187

Thanks to me you will come even a bit closer to heaven :-)

@lathankyles687

@Nahre Sol yooo Nahre I would love to meet you one day! You’re my favorite pianist!!

@hoosas5998

1y↑5

Idk about a genus, maybe a species. Hard to say.

@EricGross

@Hoos AS genus and species for the sake of precision. Let's add genius for the sake of accurate description.

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@mudswallow5074

1y↑226

Your channel is like music appreciation for musicians. Thank you Nahre.

@NahreSol

1y↑17

Thank YOU!!

@zentkd4525

1y↑4

Very well put! It's great to hear someone who does so much research explain their findings in the language of a practicing musician instead of a traditional researcher. The metaphoric or synaesthetic vocabulary may not be the most accessible approach for non-musicians, I guess, but for musicians this channel feels, like said above, highly appreciative. Please keep it this way.

@mrknoch

1y↑72

I would have to agree with @Eric Gross. She is a genius. I've learned more from her videos and garnered a deeper understanding of musical style, history and theory than all my college courses. I've taught music for 28 years now. Thanks, Nahre Sol, and keep up the good work.

@none5020

1y↑126

I would love for you to do a video going over the music of Camille Saint-Seans. His piano works especially, mazurkas, waltzs, op 72 etc, it's all incredibly complex and scattered, yet very simple ingredients how you describe, and it comes together like a Michelin star meal!

@NahreSol

1y↑42

You’re right, I haven’t covered Saint-Saëns yet 😅 I really love some of his pieces!

@none5020

1y↑1

@Nahre Sol He's very difficult to play 😭 I love and hate him mostly love.

@worldmusictheory

@None he was also an alleged pedophile so yano.

@_rstcm

1y↑4

@Nahre Sol OMG.....Check out Respighi's musical genius.

@zanemeek9042

1y↑3

@@rsrtrainandclassicalmusicf8242 Respighi doesn't get enough love and respect. Dude was really, really good and his music still resonates today.

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@truecuckoo

1y↑93

So nice! I like how you point out that any little change to a great piece will likely just kinda ruin it. I feel like composing your best piece is like building a house of cards. Care and delicacy for the emotional story 💯 or it’ll collapse to a flat stack.

@NahreSol

1y↑13

Thanks Cuckoo!! I agree — “building a house of cards” is a great way of putting it…!! ☺️

@wuwupiano

1y↑6

I find Brahms does this so well. His recapitulations are achingly touching, because of that care for the emotional story you're talking about.

@NickHchaos

1y↑5

Actually I think that’s kind of the brilliance of jazz—endless variations (that work) in realtime on a theme. You could argue that the same logic applies for the original composition, but the interpretation of the composition is at least as important as the original in this case..finding out just how many related stacks of cards you can make from that particular deck, if you want to say.

@Gryffindor8

1y↑11

I’ve literally had composition lessons going over these exact topics. Your ability to combine performance techniques with composition techniques is truly brilliant and would revolutionize music schools.

@pdxmonkee

1y↑20

Like Hans Zimmer said in one of his interviews, don't just write music but tell a story. And I think that's the genius in all the music. Each one has a unique story to tell, using their own "voice " and vulnerability they expose themselves through their music. Holding to their own, each one of them made a "language" so unique to them and us, as their listeners, recognize their sound very distinctively.I think these "voices" are lost or silenced now because of too many standards the are imposed where in fact, these standards are just merely uniqueness.

@SkyCloudSilence

1y↑2

Ngl, I actually hate music that "tells a story".

@mel4340

@Sky Cloud all music "tells a story".. So what do you mean?

@mel4340

1y↑1

@Sky Cloud that’s fair, although imo every composer would like to tell a story with their music. And even though i think most people miss it when it comes to music without lyrics, most of them also end up, like you said, projecting their own stories into the music, just like we do with every piece of art. But i do understand your point, I just believe that all composers do tell a story with their compositions because that’s what makes a composer great aside than many other abilities. But then again, this is just what i think personally and there is no evidence to prove my point, and I think this discussion can end with us realizing that almost everything about music is subjective, to me, a music might have a story, to you, it might not, who is right in that case? No one, because there is no right or wrong when it comes to music.. Thank you for this lovely discussion!

@SkyCloudSilence

@Mel Yea, for sure! 👍

@christophergetchell6490

1y↑34

This makes me think that there is less of a gulf between us improvisors and composers overall! I had always thought that composing was more of an intentional matter of taking theoretical elements of music and using them to "paint a picture" with a known palette of theory and technique. It seems that the idea of "just letting it flow" applies to both!

@NahreSol

1y↑16

Thank you for this comment!! This is seriously such a great point to consider 🙏🏻

@GizzyDillespee

1y↑6

A weird thing about improvising into an audio recorder, with the intent to listen back later and keep the better stuff... I started to hear instances of "oh wait, that should be like THIS" moments, where I'd be in the middle of a jam and play something almost good, and then immediately afterwards a better version of that same phrase, and then continue with the rest of the jam. IOW, while I was playing, subconsciously I'd set it up so I could go back and edit out the bad phrase. And the timing and cuts almost always worked out perfectly, if done in the moment like that.

I think that developed because previously, I had to go back later and punch in, and all my excessive little micro-timings would be different, and it was so obvious it was edited. The weird thing is that it was a subconscious development. I'm not quick or observant enough to notice a poorly played but good phrase, and fix it, consciously, well enough so that the edit will work later.

Therefore, if other people are like that, then your realest and best music is probably improvised... And with our audio and MIDI recording tools (even just onboard digital pianos) it makes sense to build compositions around improvisations, even for people who consider themselves to be composers first. Not if it's a procedural compositional method etc, but if you're conveying emotions? Of course! Improv is the most direct way to get emotions out musically, so... yeah.

@MsOliviaCho

1y↑6

I totally agree with the others calling Nahre Sol a genius! The feeling that is created by certain works of music by certain composers is a familiar but abstract concept, which she's somehow articulated in a concrete way that makes so much sense. I've been watching her videos for years now and I have to say that this is my favourite channel on Youtube :)

@particalman1016

1y↑4

I love this channel! I'm not that much of a musician but I do love the piano, and you breaking down the complexity of learning about the technical aspects of music is so interesting and captures my short attention span unlike any book of lecture would do. Thank you so much! I actually think I'm learning something! You're awesome!

@boredgrass

1y↑7

The German poet Peter Rühmkorf once wrote "everything perfectly arranged and magic turned off." PS: Loved the enthusiastic guys at the beginning!

@Dianelee999

1y↑21

You are articulating the gestalt of a musical piece. The very fact of our humanity, and hence our unique nervous system, lends attack, hesitation, and strength changes, as well as an interpretive signature to whatever we play. This is the reason I have intolerance for music that has “fixed” all of the “mistakes” in pitch and time. Happy holidays, Nahre ❤🙏

@Nogdev

1y↑13

I have often felt that great music and great literature are the same, in how they are intricately build worlds subject to an endless exploration. A great story always feels right; you don't feel like changing a single word, let alone a scene. Your analysis reminded me of that idea. Thanks for the great work as always Ms. Sol. Looking forward to more insights like these.

@GianmarioScotti

1y↑21

The description of Bach''s style at 8:01 is one of the most interesting insights in music I have ever heard.

@virginiahouser1060

1y↑8

Dear Nahre, I am so grateful for you! ☺ You have a gift for conveying knowledge in a wonderfully warm and appealing manner. I am a professional pianist and, without fail, learn from your presentations; yet, they are just as accessible and enjoyable to amateur music lovers, young and old, of all levels. Kudos! Keep up the fine work! 👍

@craigmetcalfe1749

1y↑27

Merry Christmas Nahre! My parents were very talented amateur musicians who met in an orchestra, she played 1st Violin and he 1st Trombone and encouraged me to start playing piano at the age of 5. In this one single video is the coalescence of most of my thoughts about playing as an amateur musician myself. Of course, many of these thoughts are the result of listening and talking to musicians who were great (IMHO). I often choose to learn a piece of music because of the way it makes me feel, so I find it easy (relatively speaking) to infuse that feeling into the music. Now I will reveal the other edge to this sword...it takes me a long time to learn to play a piece because I try to capture that original feeling from the very first bar. Is this what professional musicians do? Do they follow the same process, but more efficiently than me or is it that they are pulled along by the need to meet deadlines and spend more hours in a day practicing. Although amateur, my parents would talk about practicing for 8 hours on a Saturday. Am I being too hard on myself? My next goal is to start writing my own music which I have started but am often left at the end with these miniatures that are emotional. How can I combine multiple ideas and emotions together to write a larger piece? Thank you Nahre for paying it forward with you knowledge and talent, so if you have any words to the wise about composition, then I'm up for it in 2023. Cheers!

@philgray1023

1y↑3

Interesting point Craig. When I played with an orchestra, there were deadlines. Normally 8 pieces and 12 weeks. I would sweat the hard parts over and over, but rarely enjoyed being able to listen even in rehearsals. Then we would play and in some venues, would not even be able to hear my own playing. It was purely mechanical. Then immediately afterwards that music went back into the library never to be seen or played again. I felt a sense of loss at that.

@CossuttaDario

1y↑11

In theatre dance we talk about "finding the breath" of a choreography. It's pretty much the same concept. And you can hyperhanalyse it into constituent parts (accents, dynamics, single notes/movements etc) or keep the focus on the general intention, but breath (influencing both your psychological and physical states) ties it all together. However, more than one kind of breath might work for a piece (see Bernstein on Gould's interpretation, and yet it moves).
As an offshoot, towards another musical world, but from this perspective, check out how Victor Wooten talks about music.

@shiwakao

1y↑13

i think this video is also a great example of how important sheet music is. sheet musc standards allows for nearly every intricacy to be communicated even to someone who has never heard the piece before. without even just a few missing notations, lots of this crystallization can be lost in translation.

@auricia201

1y↑7

This was super interesting! I'm just a classical music listener, and I feel I'm missing a lot compared to musicians, which are able to appreciate the music more deeply because they understand the feeling, the techniques, and all that. These kind of analysis help a lot, I specially liked the small changes you made to the pieces to show how it makes the mood change!
Thanks for your hard work, looking forward to more videos like this!

@andsalomoni

1y↑1

A listener can perfectly understand all that counts in a musical piece.
What can lack is the strictly technical competence and the ability to play an instrument, but it has nothing to do with understanding and feeling the music.

@auricia201

@Cirkellimiet Liking or not liking something is available to everyone at the first listen. But to understand the feeling, it does take a bit more knowledge. Yes, it's not just musicians that understand that, but they pick up on it more easily.
I'm talking about myself, I wouldn't be able to say what feeling the pieces played in this video were portraying

@andsalomoni

@Auricia Musicians understand more easily because they play and listen all the time.
A non musician who listens all the time, understands like a musician.

@auricia201

@Cirkellimiet Yes, exactly, musicians understand better because they play. But a non musician doesn't put the knowledge into practice. They can understand and appreciate phrasing, but a musician that is used to practice it and experiment with different phrasings, will appreciate the work of other musicians more deeply

@viennawoodscarnot

1y↑4

I really love how Nahre articulates herself

@DorothyOzmaLover

1y↑7

Memorable & thoughtful content as always!
Truer words have never been said about crystalization being an art and not a science which is why it's beauty varies from composer to composer and reaveals why everything Nahre creates doesn't sounds like any other.

@brianmccloskey8364

1y↑3

Love your channel! As a composer this is exactly what we strive to do and is so difficult to achieve. You described and illustrated it so well.

@M0M...

1y↑5

Yes, please! I would love for you to explore this topic deeper! I agree with you on the importance of conveying a particular emotion with music. It's a tricky thing to explain, so I think these types of videos are SUPER valuable

@DenisMark1

1y↑25

Really well done! Your examples were excellent and I loved how the small changes you chose illustrated your point perfectly. I remember being tortured as a young pianist playing Carl Czerny's pieces, which superficially sound very much like Mozart or Haydn and asking "What is the DIFFERENCE? Why is one composer considered 'Great' while the other is simply workmanlike?" What I think is wonderful about your approach is that it is a tonic to the "Amadeus" school of thinking about "Greatness" which is "you know it when you hear it," which is kind of reductive and comes from the viewpoint (In my opinion) of a non-musician. Your theory is well defended and as good as any other. I hope you have read Leonard Bernstein's The Joy of Music especially Bull Session in the Rockies, where he discusses why Beethoven is considered "Great." It changed my whole perception of how to judge music or any other art. Although it goes back to Aristotle, Bernstein's theory that "greatness" involves both surprise and inevitability (which is completely shown especially in your example from the Appassionta") might be something worth exploring in a future video...

@NahreSol

1y↑7

Thank you for your comment!! It’s so interesting and helpful to read your take and insights on this :)

@DenisMark1

1y↑1

@Nahre Sol One of many voices here! I do come back to your videos to read the comments from others! You strike such a great balance for your audience between those who have loved this music for (cough) decades and those who might be just discovering it because of you! (lucky them!) Happy New Year, BTW! (I think I already used up my exclamation point ration for the year in this comment...)

@pjotrkolster

1y↑2

Oh this is a very interesting comment. The wonderful thing about music is that it is so multi-faceted but also so very universal to humanity. I think there really isn't a 'right' or 'wrong' way to theorise about it. Your explanation of Bernstein's theory is very interesting (I haven't read The Joy of Music, yet) and I too think it's worth exploring in a future video.

@alvodin6197

You've been brainwashed like every other classically trained musicians. Who are the greats? Of course, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and other German composers or people that we want to consider German. If you don't understand your own biases how can you can say you really like something.

@DenisMark1

1y↑1

@Alv Odin normally I don't engage with this sort of foolishness but I feel the need to point out the obvious. Nowhere did I say the 'greats' had to be German. This is something you're reading into my comment. Of course I could name dozens of composers from every country in Europe, each one 'great in their own way. And then there are the ones from the Americas and Asia, etc. etc. I am not familiar enough with the music of Africa and Asia to speak to their traditions, or even whether the idea of "greatness" is universal. Perhaps you are. Nahre chose to stay within the classical pantheon because it is the one most familiar to her viewers (I'm guessing). She also chose all White male composers. And if you watch any of her other videos you'll see that she holds no bias there either. I do hope your comment wasn't addressed to her as she used Ravel as an example. So no brainwashing here. It's a fascinating topic for discussion- I'd hate to see it sidetracked by comments like this.

@ibechane

1y↑9

I think everything you said resonates with me, in terms of the idea of crystallization. That said, I do feel that we tend to put composers and musical pieces on a pillar, in that of course a particular piece by Bach or Mozart or Beethoven couldn't be written any other way and still be as good, and therefore they almost end up defining the concept of crystallization in a way that I feel isn't necessarily that useful aside from reinforcing the pillars that they're on. And while I do agree the modifications you made to those passages "break" the overall feel, I think we're also so familiar with them and the associations we've already made that it's hard to imagine a change that wouldn't be jarring, and thus it sort of only serves to paint that music as being compositionally "perfect". Perhaps I'm more interested in crystallization from the point of view of Beethoven going through a couple lousy drafts of a passage and approaching the crystalline ideal rather than defining crystallization through the final product that we all inherently accept as a finished work. I think a more useful exploration of the concept of crystallization would be to take two pieces of a particular composer and compare their relative effectiveness, why one is perhaps more successfully crystalized than another, thereby reducing the gods versus mortals aspect of analyzing music. Of course, publicly critiquing music can be a minefield, so I understand if there's hesitation, but hopefully you understand where I'm coming from in terms of wanting to dive deeper into your concept.

@__-fu5se

1y↑4

I think your point brings necessary notice to romanticizing a given piece. Sure, they are great as they are known, but behind doors, under the ink and pen, where they pruned and polished as it took form, or was a perfect one-off as we are oft to believe? I incline for the former, especially when you consider these composers wrote literarly hundreds and hundreds of pieces, yet their most well known pieces are probably in the dozens. I am in awe to many of these greats, but it is important to recognize that behind master pieces there were also many student works and discarded drafts. Genius is nourished, not pulled from a crystal ball.

@chimvomusic

1y↑4

Me encanta la forma en la que expresas lo que piensas, y lo reafirmas al momento de tocar. Gracias Maestra.

@musonymous

1y↑4

You always get to the essence of things and every point is made concisely and clearly. I would love to hear you explore Bartok and the influence of Hungarian folk elements in his music. I also loved your exploration of flamenco. It was one of your best clips although it’s impossible to pick a favourite.
Thankyou for your inspirational work.

@dkant4511

Love your visual imagery hermeneutics! Elucidating and not at all arbitrary. Kudos and would add that I have original compositions that I could also argue are 'Great'. Also I appreciate the crystallization concept which hearkens back to other alchemical analogies I used myself often. What crystallizes in Bud Powell or Miles Davis is very different than Bach's H moll Messe. However I can understand both with that immediacy you speak of.

@maxjohn6012

49w

I would very much enjoy more videos like this. I particularly enjoyed the final point you made, about the importance of purpose in driving the gelling of elements during composition - it helps me understand why I completed the two pieces that I have seen through and why I've abandoned so many others that I have started!

@amanrahman5164

1y↑2

I love how you answered this question. I want to know more about how you define and see crystallization in music, and why you find it useful even though it is mysterious and kind of abstract to me.

keep up the incredible work!

@lazp2727

Delightful video! I love the way you explain your perspective & I appreciate the information you provide! Would love more like this!!

@lillil6490

I'd love to delve into the mindsets of composers. I imagine there's lot of similarities and also some difference. When you posed the question, the first answer that popped into my mind was perseverance.

@creativelym8284

1y↑3

This is such a valuable video Nahre. It just got better with every section. Bravo!!🎉👏

@SergioValenzuela

1y↑1

I really love your comparison to crystallization and natural process. A marvelous insight into the fragility of a masterpiece, and how very simple materials grow into a complex music statement that works ay every level & dimension, in the hands of a true master. I feel that from all composers, J.S Bach is the most resilient to some destruction, his music can be inverted, played mediocrely, even out of tune or in a weird tempo still retaining a sound and unmistakable character. This video reminded me of Leonard Bernstein on the discarded fragments from Beethoven´s 5th Symphony in his legendary TV show, the Omnibus. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2HJerMp8A ). Kind of a flip side to Nahre´s excellent video, how a giant like Beethoven struggled to crystallize a perfect phrase.

@singtatsucgc3247

50w

Very insightful explanation on why generally a performer should study the composer’s style and follow the score markings in detail.

Thanks!

@Kelters

Thank you Nahre. That was sooo intuitive and understandable. It is a real aid to understanding why it is important to connect to the emotional requirements of a piece (as well as those of the performer!) to be able to play really well for an audience. (Or, indeed, simply for one's own pleasure.) P.S. -- I keep forgetting to subscribe. Today I remember why I should!

@bwalle

I really found this episode to be extremely rewarding and insightful. I’ve certainly liked the way you put this topic together so cleanly and balanced. This will definitely become a factor in how I approach learning and performing my music studies.

@robbiewoodall2202

This is right on point. The space in-between the notes, the loudness or softness, the holding or quick releasing creates a sort of sonic animation. Victor Wooten talks alot about these same concepts.

@gsco82

1y↑1

I really enjoyed your very thoughtful analysis of the music of such great composers. I would love to see more of this, even though my knowledge of music theory is barely above beginner level. You are a great pianist.

@tapeexperiments

1y↑1

More! Love the score analysis from a performer's perspective. (I see you are a composer as also) I would watch a deeper look into compositional elements. I'm not a pianist but I use the Keyboard a ton for composition/writing/production and your videos always inspire me to work on piano. Thank you. (P.S. I downloaded the Henle app and started working on the Piano for Beethoven's Violin Sonata 5 Op. 24- ...or at least the 1st Nine Measures! 😅)

@ronricherson6685

I really enjoyed this. You made me reconsider a recent melody I've written; actually...more than that. I think it's human nature to get fixated on original ideas, including music; and I really like this melody. But I imagined it with a slight hesitation (as you demonstrated in the Mozart piece) and it immediately altered the emotions in evokes.

@jamescorbin5638

1y↑2

First time listener—your approach is professional, informative and entertaining. Thanks

@jteichma

Thanks Nahre, this is a great observation, and helped me see the importance of rhythm and feel in bringing together a great musical idea, or at least in developing a personal musical style. Happy holidays!

@ChristopheTornieri

Wow. Thanks for this really interesting point of view. I think composing, like any arts or even science, is a mix of knowledge and intuition. You need intuition (mainly acquired through practice) to explore new ideas and decide what is good or not but you also need knowledge to guide this intuition. Also knowledge help you go in the right direction faster.

@Mamby9Pamby

1y↑2

You have crystalized a very important point that most musicians recognize but had no words. Beautiful efficiency.

@danielkerr5583

It would be great to see a video on mediocre composers (perhaps contemporaries of the greats) demonstrating how there is room to make their music better. I think that would make your point about crystallization a bit more clear than just making a few minor changes from pieces that are already at an optimum like you say. Seeing something very far away would be instructive.

@curtdilger6235

1y↑1

I LOVE your wonderful work. For more inspiration regarding your metaphor, I recommend looking into the writer Stendhal's theory of love from 1822 which he describes as crystallization. Also Christian Bok's poetry specifically Crystallography where he poses questions about the linkages to words and comparing them to the formation of crystals. I think you make inspiring videos and great music. Thank You. Warm Regards

@deonrinkwest6337

50w

I like the Bach example.
Same notes.
Different emotions.
Different style.
Great.
Do more examples.

@treehann

I love your videos so much! Always so engaging and interesting and of course nice on the ears.

@claudefazio

Very nice video! The great, late conductor Leonard Bernstein when discussing Beethoven's music opined that what makes him so great is not so much his themes, melodies, and the like but the sense of "inevitability" his music creates, as if everything in the score could not have been written in a better way in an organic whole.

@chrisbrauchli2758

1y↑1

It's great to see a pianist who is truly a musician, I've come to see music as a living person, a woman with moods, hard to understand, but truly worth getting to know well... thank you for your work in this field...

@donaldaxel

What has great composers in common? They write ...

I loved the intro. And Yes! 03:53 Henle is just so good at presenting music in the most readable form.

@lukeserrano62

1y↑5

Exactly right Ms Sol. All compositional decisions need to be guided by a very clear emotional intention directing the musical storytelling and every detail of rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, colour etc. Without emotional clarity there can be no musical clarity or consistency in either composition or interpretation. Musicians young and old need to hear this every day! Thank you for your wonderful work. I love your pianistic skills and the workings of your creative and analytical musical mind.

@vandini8185

49w↑1

You are a gift. I'm just in awe of someone expressing these thoughts I unconsciously felt but did not have the expertise or experience to express. It's an honour to learn from someone as capable and enthusiastic as you. I'm in awe of how on point you are, and how I can get access to all this crystallised knowledge for free. I'm a professional writer actually, so I felt honoured when you compared the magic of music with that of poetry and stories. 💛 Stay blessed. I love your teaching! 💖

@SiddharthBhatt11

1y↑2

Brilliant! Thanks a lot for your hard work and insights, Nahre! Yours videos are always eye-opening! If you can, please dig deeper into the “art” aspect of composition that you mentioned in this video. I think all good composers are like method actors but for music. They can feel the emotions of their subjects/characters (which are often themselves) and through the mastery of their craft they are all able to convey the same feelings (and/or tell the story) to their audience.

@russkalen2337

Absolutely BRILLIANT! I have been trying to get my musician friends to see this point, but with marginal success. Your examples really show your point well. Love it!

@bastiaanvanbeek

1y↑1

Great video, Nahre Sol. I was wondering, could you make a video about a special category of great composers who did not have high standing compositional skills, but rather were very innovative and thinking differently in a musical sense. Examples could be Erik Satie and Modest Mussorgsky. I think that the famous great composers who had brilliant skill, such as Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bach, Mahler, Rachmaninov, etc. already are discussed a lot. I am also curious what you might say about more odd, less skilled composers who nevertheless changed classical music for a part, and thus can be considered great as well. The question is, what is it that made them great?

@Jinkaza1882

1y↑2

The crystallization is a great point. The comp prof I had would say, "Compose something everyday"- he wanted us to get into the a pattern of crafting a work. That then put the reason the orchestra director would correct people, "don't call it a "piece", it is a work of music". Like a gem cutter, a composer will pull the music from what other wise would be unorganized noised. And then we learned to enjoy unorganized noise too! Love it al!

@michaelmccrary5037

Thanks, Nahre. I really enjoy your posts. I play mostly Hawaiian music and jazz guitar. Your concepts have equal weight in all styles of music. The idea of timing, chord choices, and dynamics can change the feeling and meaning of songs/tunes. Thanks for your curiosity and playful explanations. Very thought-provoking.

@johnnytwo-shoes9798

These investigations are awesome. I really enjoy them. I'm not from a western art music background, though I studied a little of it uni. I find it fascinating. Keep it up =)

@SirNintendo28

I'd love a video on what parts of music theory can convey those abstract emotions! I know it's subjective but I'm sure there are themes. Though maybe that'll be covered in the booklet...

@katiewilkes5036

I'd love to see your unique approach on this topic in relation to current composers and maybe even bring in some perspectives of composers you may have worked with currently or in the past to get their view on what they think great composers of today have in common. I'd also wonder how you might approach this topic with composers who write with non-traditional notation such as with text scores or graphic scores.

@psych0536

1y↑1

Yeah I have also noticed that a lot of the classical music I love has this extra "life" - for want of a better way to put it - to it, that I have not been able to really figure out. I think you are on to something!

@markshveima

35w

Fantastic insights. 1,000% agree that music that moves the heart, mind, or body cannot be made from an entirely theoretical standpoint. Theory is super helpful in enhancing what a creator already has pouring out of them, or at times providing a keystone or grounding point. But ultimately a great composition weaves an emotional web that draws the listener into its center and then along the strands to a cathartic finish.

@jonahpragermusic8653

Thank you Nahre, for yet another amazing video! Also, I'm so happy for you regarding the Henle sponsorship for this video. Henle is the best!!!

@PracticePiano30000Hours

Extraordinary video! Even if I barely understand what you mean because I have just started my piano journey for 4 years~ as an adult.

I can't imagine how much time you have spent on the piano and music books. Hopefully one day I gonna be great as you are. Respect.

@fredericsonfredericson6144

The animation is soo cool! Did you draw it yourself? The video was super interesting, I would love to hear more about this topic:)

@IronFreee

1y↑2

For me great music not only conveys emotions but the more you listen to it, the more you like it. Great music grows on you, it's not the most accessible.